The Securities and Exchange Commission says in a news release today that it has stopped a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme aimed mostly at Chinese-Americans in the Dallas area.

The SEC's complaint says the man behind the alleged scheme described himself as the "Chinese Warren Buffett."

Toronto-based Weizhen Tang and his hedge fund are accused of raising between $50 million and $75 million from more than 200 investors.

"The SEC's complaint alleges that Tang told investors in February 2009 that in an effort to conceal substantial trading losses and attract new investors to the Oversea Chinese Fund, he posted false profits on investors' account statements and used funds from new investors to return principal and pay out at least $8 million in 'fake' profits to other investors."